{"id":51410,"date":"2024-10-27T18:59:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51410"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:59:38","slug":"internet-outage-movie-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/10\/27\/internet-outage-movie-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Outage Movie Catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:851,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.plex.tv&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260128014723\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.plex.tv\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 14:45:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:39:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 07:28:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 04:11:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 03:03:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 05:03:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:852,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/jellyfin.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228212227\\\/https:\\\/\\\/jellyfin.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 14:45:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:39:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 08:34:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 23:48:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:853,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/firecore.com\\\/infuse&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260301074007\\\/https:\\\/\\\/firecore.com\\\/infuse&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 14:45:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:39:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 08:34:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 07:45:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 08:58:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:854,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/djwudi\\\/film\\\/sleepy-hollow&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:855,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/djwudi\\\/film\\\/bram-stokers-dracula&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:856,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/djwudi\\\/film\\\/young-frankenstein&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had two internet outages in the past week, one for most of Tuesday, the second for 36 hours from 2 a.m. Saturday to 2 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>During the Tuesday outage, I realized (once again) that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plex.tv\">Plex<\/a>, home media server software that allows you to stream media over your home network, <em>doesn&#8217;t do that<\/em> if there isn&#8217;t an active internet connection. Having home media server software that doesn&#8217;t work as a home media server in a situation where you&#8217;re quite likely to want to use it because you can&#8217;t stream from external sources is more than a little frustrating, and finally pushed me over the edge into looking into alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>So, I started getting <a href=\"https:\/\/jellyfin.org\">Jellyfin<\/a> set up as my media server, and when the internet went out again, it quite happily and easily let us watch a couple movies over the weekend. I&#8217;m still figuring out some of the ins and outs (Jellyfin doesn&#8217;t have its own native macOS or tvOS app, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/firecore.com\/infuse\">Infuse<\/a> app that I&#8217;m using isn&#8217;t showing movie special features, but I don&#8217;t yet know if that&#8217;s a limitation or user error), but it was easy to set up, read my existing media files as originally set up for Plex just fine, and is doing what I wanted it to, which Plex doesn&#8217;t seem to be prioritizing anymore as they pivot more towards building their own streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>All that said: Even when Plex was being a snit, we still have a DVD player, so between that and getting Jellyfin set up, we did manage to get three spooky-season movies watched:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/djwudi\/film\/sleepy-hollow\/\">Sleepy Hollow (1999)<\/a>: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Tim Burton during his peak years still holds up. I\u2019d forgotten just how strong the cast was in this one. Still a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/djwudi\/film\/bram-stokers-dracula\/\">Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula (1992)<\/a>: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: This one doesn\u2019t hold up so well. I still mostly enjoy it, but between the constantly varying stylization and Reeves\u2019 and Ryder\u2019s flatness, it drags on more than I remembered. Also, I\u2019d totally forgotten just how horny this film is (not necessarily a bad thing, just didn\u2019t remember that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/djwudi\/film\/young-frankenstein\/\">Young Frankenstein (1974)<\/a>: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Still and always a classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving from Plex to Jellyfin, and watching some spooky season films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038,2037],"tags":[5968,5970,5969,5967,3292],"class_list":["post-51410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tv-and-films","tag-bram-stokers-dracula","tag-jellyfin","tag-plex","tag-sleepy-hollow","tag-young-frankenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51411,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51410\/revisions\/51411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}